Hopefully this helps someone else's Excel performance. There is a preference to open all new workbooks in Normal view but any workbook you've previously saved in Page Layout view will stay in that view until you change it. What are the pros and cons to updating from MS Office Excel 2011 to 2016 Any bugs that render Excel unusable Any added features that are useful Press J to jump to the feed. It would appear that Excel chugs when trying to display sheets in Page Layout view! To fix this issue, add Microsoft Office to the exception list of the proxy server. Based on feedback from the great Mac Office community, we’ve made major. When the user agent is blocked by the proxy server, you experience the issues that are mentioned in the 'Symptoms' section. Today, we are taking a big step forward for Mac usersOffice 2016 for Mac is now available in 139 countries and 16 languages. Once in normal view, I could click from cell-to-cell quickly and from sheet-to-sheet quickly. Office 2016 for Mac 16.9 and later versions use a new user agent string in the HTTP request that starts with 'Microsoft Office'. What finally worked for me was changing the view of each sheet of the notebook I was working on from Page Layout view to Normal view.

I tried disabling most automatic features in Excel's preferences I tried turning the Colorful interface into Classic I tried turning off animations I removed all of my fonts and reverted to only the standard system fonts.

This was happening on multiple (Mac) computers. I was getting intermittent freezing in Excel where clicking on cells, scrolling through a sheet, and navigating between sheets would pause and not respond for several seconds, if at all.

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